Tuesday 29 March 2016

Journal Entry #8: Digital Law

For this assignment, we learned about different laws that are prominent in schools regarding copyright, as well as privacy on the internet and cyberbullying. The part of this assignment that I found most surprising was learning about the different laws that exist when it comes to schools playing music and movies. It was interesting to find out that schools are not allowed to just play any songs they want at certain times and they actually should have a licence! I found this very interesting because I was curious if our school had any kind of licence or not, but it was a very interesting topic to learn about in general because a lot of the rules seem ridiculous but with an explanation and more research, they kind of make sense and I understand why schools probably shouldn't just play any music at any time and at any event they want to. The most confusing part of this assignment was also the most interesting, which is the music licence that a lot of schools in Canada need to play music. This was confusing to me because many of the rules seemed far-fetched and it wasn't established just how important this licence is, so I was confused if it is badly illegal if a school plays copyrighted music whenever they want or is it just kind of illegal? The manual Copyright Matters is is very helpful! I learned a ton of stuff that I probably would have never known about copyright rules and I can see myself being far more careful in the future when I need to be cautious of copyright laws. I think it is a very useful resource for students who want to know more about copyright laws and issues because I learned a lot in no time at all and it can be used as a very reliable source for emergencies, like if a student wants to enter art into a competition they can look up the rules in that manual, and same with schools regarding music copyrights! Personally, I don't find NeedHelpNow.com to be very helpful for all that it states. If I needed help with bullying or something I would never go to that website just because it is quite useless to me. When I need help with a situation like that I need very specific help from certain people, not a website, but that is just my opinion. However, I do think it is a good resource of information! It gives a lot of really good information on how to get intimate images that have been leaked of you down from the internet, and it also educates young people about the warning signs that mental help might be needed by your friends regarding what they post on social media, so it is always important to pay attention!

I think that the biggest issue for young people when it comes to copyright is that they don't know enough about it, and don't care enough to learn more. I have witnessed so many artists get their art stolen or reposted without proper sourcing and when the person who stole it is confronted they always use the same excuse that "it is not illegal" but it is! Stealing any images from the internet or other internet users' photography, art or music. So, I think that young people should be willing to research copyright laws themselves or have to be taught them before using certain websites or making presentations in school.

I think that the biggest issue for young people regarding cyberbullying and privacy is that they don't know all of the laws and they don't take it seriously enough. I have known a lot of people, boys and girls, who have taken sexual pictures of themselves and sent them to only one person but in no time others have seen them and they wonder why. It's very upsetting that this ever happens to anyone but the people who take them are usually underage and they don't know that even when they take the picture it's against the law. Being in possession of and participating in the distribution of child pornography is all illegal! So just don't do it, wait for like, three years and you're set you can do whatever you want. Also, when it comes to cyberbullying it's the same thing. Too many young people don't know enough about what can affect certain people and maybe if it was the other way around and the things said by the bully were said by someone else to them, they wouldn't care, which is the only thought that a lot of bullies put into it before they do it. Which is where the problems begin. The people who choose to cyberbully don't know the mental boundaries of their victims and if they say one thing that triggers that person to commit suicide, they can get in serious trouble and they deserve to. Young people who misbehave like this on the internet have no idea what they are doing half of the time and should be ignored at all costs. 

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